Kubernetes Job Trends in Surrey

Kubernetes (k8s)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 69 108
Rank change year-on-year -5 +39 -46
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 46 30 33
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 2.04% 2.62% 1.57%
As % of the Systems Management category 33.82% 41.10% 19.88%
Number of salaries quoted 32 18 23
10th Percentile £51,250 £53,375 £50,250
25th Percentile £59,375 £67,500 £58,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £73,750 £84,063 £86,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £90,000 £90,500
South East median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% -6.90%

All Systems Management Skills
Surrey

Kubernetes falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 136 73 166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 6.04% 6.36% 7.90%
Number of salaries quoted 107 56 100
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £38,625
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,125 £76,563
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £87,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £56,252
% change year-on-year +4.35% +2.22% -6.25%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Kubernetes relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Surrey

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Kubernetes.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Surrey over the 6 months to 2 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in Surrey

Kubernetes
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 2 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Staines -3 9 £67,500 -3.57% 3
Guildford -18 9 £62,500 -30.56% 2
Leatherhead - 6 - -
Reigate -10 4 £60,000 - 1
Egham - 4 £65,000 -
Woking -19 3 £65,000 -21.21%
Camberley - 1 £52,500 - 1
Sunbury-on-Thames - 1 - - 1
Godalming - 1 - -
Kubernetes
South East

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (10.87%) IIS
1 5 (10.87%) nginx
2 4 (8.70%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (4.35%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 28 (60.87%) AWS
2 24 (52.17%) Azure
3 15 (32.61%) GitHub
4 9 (19.57%) Azure AKS
4 9 (19.57%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (15.22%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (15.22%) Azure Monitor
5 7 (15.22%) Azure Service Bus
6 6 (13.04%) Cloudflare
6 6 (13.04%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (13.04%) GitHub Copilot
6 6 (13.04%) OpenShift
7 5 (10.87%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (10.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 5 (10.87%) Azure Pipelines
7 5 (10.87%) GCP
8 4 (8.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (8.70%) Anthropic Claude
8 4 (8.70%) Snowflake
9 3 (6.52%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.70%) Firewall
1 4 (8.70%) VPN
2 2 (4.35%) DNS
3 1 (2.17%) HTTP
3 1 (2.17%) RTP
3 1 (2.17%) Unified Communications
3 1 (2.17%) VoIP
3 1 (2.17%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (23.91%) MongoDB
2 9 (19.57%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (10.87%) MySQL
4 5 (10.87%) SQL Server
5 4 (8.70%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (4.35%) NoSQL
6 2 (4.35%) Pinecone
6 2 (4.35%) Redis
6 2 (4.35%) Relational Database
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (2.17%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 11 (23.91%) Git
2 7 (15.22%) GitLab
3 6 (13.04%) Jenkins
3 6 (13.04%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (6.52%) JIRA
5 2 (4.35%) Claude Code
5 2 (4.35%) MSI
General
1 13 (28.26%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.87%) Finance
3 4 (8.70%) Public Sector
3 4 (8.70%) Retail
4 3 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.52%) Legal
5 2 (4.35%) Aerospace
5 2 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.17%) Law
6 1 (2.17%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 13 (28.26%) Developer
1 13 (28.26%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (15.22%) Senior
3 6 (13.04%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 6 (13.04%) Azure Engineer
3 6 (13.04%) Lead
3 6 (13.04%) Senior DevOps
4 4 (8.70%) .NET Developer
4 4 (8.70%) Administrator
4 4 (8.70%) Backend Developer
4 4 (8.70%) Data Engineer
4 4 (8.70%) DevOps Administrator
4 4 (8.70%) Python Engineer
4 4 (8.70%) Senior Systems Administrator
4 4 (8.70%) Systems Administrator
5 3 (6.52%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Python Developer
5 3 (6.52%) Software Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Lead Software Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (21.74%) .NET
2 6 (13.04%) ARM Templates
2 6 (13.04%) Node.js
2 6 (13.04%) Spring
3 5 (10.87%) .NET Core
3 5 (10.87%) ASP.NET
3 5 (10.87%) ASP.NET Core
3 5 (10.87%) Loki
3 5 (10.87%) REST
4 4 (8.70%) .NET Framework
4 4 (8.70%) AngularJS
4 4 (8.70%) Kafka
4 4 (8.70%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (8.70%) Spring Boot
4 4 (8.70%) Vue
5 3 (6.52%) Flask
5 3 (6.52%) Hibernate
5 3 (6.52%) PySpark
6 2 (4.35%) PyTorch
6 2 (4.35%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.39%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (8.70%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (8.70%) PKI
2 4 (8.70%) Private Cloud
3 3 (6.52%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 3 (6.52%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (6.52%) Management Information System
3 3 (6.52%) Security Posture
4 2 (4.35%) AI Agents
4 2 (4.35%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.35%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.17%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (2.17%) IoT
5 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 20 (43.48%) Linux
2 9 (19.57%) Windows
3 4 (8.70%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.17%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (2.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (63.04%) CI/CD
2 23 (50.00%) DevOps
3 21 (45.65%) Agile
4 16 (34.78%) AI
4 16 (34.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (34.78%) Microservices
5 12 (26.09%) Software Engineering
6 11 (23.91%) Infrastructure Automation
7 9 (19.57%) Containerisation
8 8 (17.39%) Collaborative Working
8 8 (17.39%) DevSecOps
8 8 (17.39%) Mentoring
8 8 (17.39%) Observability
8 8 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (15.22%) Cloud Security
9 7 (15.22%) Collaborative Culture
9 7 (15.22%) Continuous Deployment
9 7 (15.22%) Performance Optimisation
10 6 (13.04%) Analytics
10 6 (13.04%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 26 (56.52%) Python
2 17 (36.96%) SQL
3 12 (26.09%) C#
4 11 (23.91%) PowerShell
5 10 (21.74%) Bash
6 7 (15.22%) Go
7 6 (13.04%) Java
8 5 (10.87%) Bicep
9 4 (8.70%) TypeScript
10 3 (6.52%) C++
11 2 (4.35%) Perl
11 2 (4.35%) PHP
12 1 (2.17%) C
12 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (10.87%) AWS Certification
2 4 (8.70%) Azure Certification
2 4 (8.70%) Degree
2 4 (8.70%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.52%) CEH
3 3 (6.52%) CISM
3 3 (6.52%) CISSP
3 3 (6.52%) GIAC
4 2 (4.35%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.17%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (13.04%) QA
2 3 (6.52%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (6.52%) NIST
3 1 (2.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 31 (67.39%) Docker
2 5 (10.87%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.17%) Firmware
3 1 (2.17%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 21 (45.65%) Terraform
2 13 (28.26%) Grafana
3 12 (26.09%) Prometheus
4 10 (21.74%) Ansible
5 4 (8.70%) Argo
5 4 (8.70%) Kibana
5 4 (8.70%) Proxmox
6 1 (2.17%) Istio
Vendors
1 17 (36.96%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.87%) Google
2 5 (10.87%) VMware
3 4 (8.70%) Databricks
3 4 (8.70%) New Relic
3 4 (8.70%) OpenAI
4 3 (6.52%) Qualys
4 3 (6.52%) SolarWinds
4 3 (6.52%) Splunk
4 3 (6.52%) Zerto
5 1 (2.17%) BT
5 1 (2.17%) EMC
5 1 (2.17%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.17%) Mitel